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We sat down with UC Berkeley professor John Shoptaw to discuss his upcoming book, “Times Beach,” as well as some of the history that inspired it. A winner of the Notre Dame Book Review Prize — a prize that awards authors with a first volume of short stories or poetry — “TimesRead More…